South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya fall in the following order on the continuum:
A Nigeria
B South Africa
C Kenya
A, started the space race. NASA shortly began its work in full after the launch of Sputnik spurred them on.
Ancient Ghana's kings were totalitarian. Via their mother's side of the family, they inherited rule-matrilineal rather than patrilineal as at the time with kings in Europe-and they claimed descent from an initial ancestor whom they felt had first settled the territory.
To briefly sum things up:
- Bartolomé de Las Casas saw the indigenous peoples as equals and believed they should not be treated as less. However, he still wanted to convert them to his religion to "free" them.
- On the other hand, Cortés basically said the indigenous people were perfect for slavery because they lacked the "superior" qualities the Europeans had, and so he definitely thought they were inferior.